US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Garden earlier than boarding Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home on July 25, 2025, in Washington, DC en path to Turnberry, Scotland.
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President Donald Trump on Friday deflected questions on his former pal Jeffrey Epstein as Epstein’s convicted intercourse offender confederate Ghislaine Maxwell was set to fulfill with a high Division of Justice official in Florida for the second day in a row.
“I’ve nothing to do with the man,” Trump stated of Epstein, with whom he had socialized for years earlier than falling out with the now-dead pedophile within the mid-2000s.
Trump as a substitute stated individuals ought to concentrate on others who, like him, had beforehand socialized with Epstein, amongst them former President Invoice Clinton and ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who additionally served as president of Harvard College.
Individuals “do not speak about them. They speak about me,” Trump griped earlier than departing for a visit to Scotland.
“You need to concentrate on Clinton. You need to concentrate on the president of Harvard, the previous president of Harvard, you must concentrate on a number of the hedge fund guys,” Trump stated.
“I will provide you with a listing. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein, I positive as hell did not.”
Requested if he was contemplating a pardon or sentence commutation for Maxwell — who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence for procuring and grooming younger ladies to be sexually abused by Epstein — Trump stated, “It is one thing I have not considered.”
“I am allowed to do it,” he added.
Trump has confronted rising stress to launch details about Epstein after the DOJ earlier this month reneged on guarantees by Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi and high FBI officers to reveal information legal investigators assembled of their intercourse trafficking probe of Epstein.
Trump final week ordered Bondi to hunt the unsealing of grand jury transcripts associated to investigations of Epstein and Maxwell, shortly after The Wall Avenue Journal reported he had despatched a “bawdy” letter to Epstein in 2003 for the cash supervisor’s fiftieth birthday.
“I do not even know what they’re speaking about. Now, someone might have written a letter and used my identify, however that is occurred lots,” Trump stated in regards to the letter on Friday.
On Tuesday, Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche stated he would search to fulfill Maxwell and ask her if she had details about different individuals who had probably abused underage ladies and younger girls related to Epstein. Blanche is a former legal protection lawyer for Trump.
Blanche met for hours with Maxwell and her legal professional on Thursday in U.S. District Court docket in Tallahassee, Florida, the identical metropolis the place she is serving her jail time period.
A second sit-down was scheduled for Friday.
Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, spoke to reporters on his approach into the courthouse Friday.
‘”We’re hoping for an additional productive day,” Markus stated, earlier than including: “Ghislaine has been handled unfairly for over 5 years now.”
“For those who appeared up scapegoat within the dictionary, her face can be subsequent to the definition subsequent to the dictionary definition of it,” he stated. “So, you understand, we’re grateful for this chance to lastly have the ability to say what actually occurred, and that is what we’ll do yesterday and at the moment.”
Markus stated that Maxwell has “been in horrible, terrible circumstances for 5 years. We would not maintain animals the way in which she’s been saved in jail.”
“We simply ask that folk take a look at what she has to say with an open thoughts, and that is what Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche has promised us, and the whole lot she says could be corroborated and and he or she’s telling the reality,” Markus stated.
“She’s bought no cause to lie at this level, and he or she’s going to maintain telling the reality.”